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"Unapologetic? Alabama teen Breanna Mitchell faced extreme scrutiny after posting a grinning selfie at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Germany on June 20.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nAbout a month later the image went viral, and the teen received thousands of critical tweets from those offended by the controversial nature of the image.&amp;#xA0;\r\nIn the picture, Mitchell is smiling with one earbud in, and the caption reads, &amp;#x201C;Selfie in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp&amp;#x201D; with a blushing, smiley face emoji.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nAuschwitz was the most infamous concentration camp in World War II, and between 800,000 and 1 million victims, most of them Jewish, were systematically exterminated at the horrific site.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nBefore turning her Twitter profile private, Mitchell defended her photo online, writing that the image was a tribute to her late father.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;#x201C;The Holocaust and World War II is the only thing that&amp;#x2019;s ever interested me in history,&amp;#x201D; Mitchell told TakePartLive in a video interview. &amp;#x201C;And it&amp;#x2019;s [my dad&amp;#x2019;s] favorite part of history. Whenever I graduated, [my parents] said they&amp;#x2019;d take me out of the States to go wherever I wanted. [My dad] died one year prior to that photo.&amp;#x201D;\r\nSince the image went viral, Mitchell has dealt with &amp;#x201C;death threats&amp;#x201D; and hateful messages telling her to kill herself, but still defends her decision to post the image.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;#x201C;Honestly, I don&amp;#x2019;t think I would do anything different just because I didn&amp;#x2019;t mean any harm,&amp;#x201D; she said. &amp;#x201C;And I&amp;#x2019;ve told everyone my story behind it. So that&amp;#x2019;s the only reason why I don&amp;#x2019;t regret taking it.&amp;#x201D;&amp;#xA0;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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